{"product_id":"the-flock-9780874173550","title":"The Flock","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis title is a collection of sketches, merging nonfiction and myth. Working within the oral tradition it follows a detailed history of the sheep industry in historic California with lyrical allegoric vignettes about sheep management, shearing, weather sense, and grazing the Sierra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'My sheep book,' Austin called it. Like her other early works - especially The Land of Little Rain, Lost Borders, and Isidro - The Flock explores the interrelationships between landscape and human culture through the portrayal of a particular aspect of Western society. It also represents Austin's effort to rethink and revise the age-old pastoral tradition in an American setting....The Flock is not about Austin, and yet we have such a strong sense of personal presence, in her voice and style, that we are made to think about the way a mind comes to understand and be changed by listening to the stories of 'others' and retelling them. The reader is jolted from a position of passive reception of information into an awareness of the ambiguous creation of meaning.\" - Melody Graulich, editor of Exploring Lost Borders: Critical Essays on Mary Austin\"","brand":"MP-NEV University of Nevada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515514184023,"sku":"9780874173550","price":17.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-flock-9780874173550","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}